by Clara de Macedo Vitorino
ISBN: 0864425899
332pp
With brief language and vocabulary sections devoted to most situations the casual Portugal traveller might encounter, the LP Portuguese Phrasebook is a handy edition to your luggage. There are set phrases for travellers of all descriptions: campers, clubbers, cyclists, the disabled, drinkers, gays, internet surfers, job-seekers, shoppers even vegetarians. There is also a football section of use to visitors to the Euro 2004 Championship - Campeonato da Europa - who can learn such gems as 'O árbitro estava comprado' ('The ref was bought') and less usefully 'Vamos sazer a onda' ('Let's do the Mexican wave').
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by Lexus with Norma de Oliviera Tait
ISBN: 1858286441
272pp
Rough Guide's neatly designed and easily portable Dictionary Phrasebook
opens which some very useful introductory grammar sections and then
splits into the main English-Portuguese and the shorter Portuguese-English
dictionary.
The English-Portuguese section features brief situational dialogues
such as 'getting on a train' and 'having a film developed' as well
as feature boxes with useful tourist and cultural information connected
with particular words and phrases, which will be familiar to Rough
Guide readers. The imitated pronounciation guide is well done and
certainly helps, for this reviewer at least, with Portuguese's devilish
pronounciation.
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